Hi, this is majorly identifying but I'm past caring. I'm so angry I need others opinions as am driving myself crazy.
So here's the story. Ds is 15, he has AS, is completely obsessed with our football team ( Premier League ) and has a season ticket with his dad, my ex.
He also likes to go to "away" games up and down the country which is bloody expensive and tickets are often very hard to get but we try and get them as often as possible.
He had made contact with a group of Instagram, a local group who do coach trips to the away games and they said they had 2 tickets available with coach to last weekends fixture, total cost £116 which is expected.
Ds was thrilled, his dad vouched for them as his friend at work uses them every week and I transferred the money to ex to deal with it his end which he did. All good.
The night before the game I spoke to a good friend of mine who travels to all away games and told her that we had tickets, when I told her who from she said that they are really dodgy and have a habit of letting people down/scamming them.
At 6.25am, a few hours before we were due to leave, my ds had a message off the person who said that there were no tickets ( along with a crappy excuse ) and he would refund in 10 minutes. We're still waiting.
After doing a bit of digging, there are a few of them in it together but one ringleader, he's who ex paid money to. Ex contacted them on Social media and was fobbed off but another supporter saw the message and contacted ex and he was scammed too last month for over £350 and has been promised and promised. He has the address of the main one and has been there but nobody has answered.
It seems that these people have a history of doing this and seem to be the types that you don't mess with, ringleader is known to police.
Have many messages from him this week promising, screenshots of bank transfers that never happened ( ex said he must be good at photoshop ) and I'm getting more and more upset and angry.
We've been so skint all week and I told him that. He owes me £116 which is a lot to me and I won't let him get away with it.
Ex has contacted police who said they will be taking it seriously and also his bank have opened up a fraud investigation but said it's unlikely they can recover the money.
In the meantime we have nothing as have borrowed on the strength of it, more fool me.
Any ideas please? I've been nice all week and getting nowhere. Sorry for essay.